Advice for Internationals in concern to academics.....PLEASE!?

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Hey, I'm about to go to Andover for Grade 10 and I have no idea about American education, lol. I want to go to Ivy League (who doesn't? :)) and I'm not sure what a GPA is and hard it is. For example how would you break up a school like Andover's GPA. Like:
Top 10% of Andover gets 3.8-4.0 etc etc</p>

<p>Also what would you recommend as courses for me?
I'm already going to do:
AP BC Calculus
AP C Physics
2nd year accelerated German or SAT level
History - hopefully accelerate this year to SAT level
Gym - Compulsory
Elective of a religious/philosophy nature</p>

<p>So in Grade 10 I'm doing the APs for BC Calculus, AB Calculus, Physics C and the SATs hopefully for German and History. What do you suggest for my religious/philosophy nature course and basically any recommendations at all for subjects for SATs and APs. I also definitely will be doing the SATs Level 1 and Level 2 for Maths. Why do people do SAT 1s and SAT 2s? What is the difference? And if I do SAT Maths (both 1 and 2), History and German do I do any more? Can I do more? And what are SAT 1s (Critical Reading, Big vocab etc)? </p>

<p>Basically can someone give me the run down on high school academics and any advice to me personally about my subjects?
Thanks!</p>

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<p>ok i have no information to help u but im gonna bump this so others will notice it...Sorry i cant help. Im going to be freshman next year... :)</p>

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<p>bump.............:)</p>

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<p>thanks bball prep, you a american? Just wondering...</p>

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<p>lol, yeah i live in ct</p>

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<p>kk, thanks anyways and good luck at high school. btw, where you going? I loved CT. I applied for Hotchkiss, Taft and Choate and although I got into all of them I decided Andover. But I made the mistake of telling the Choate guy I thought Choate was in Massachuetis (Its scary I can't spell it and I'm going to live there).</p>

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<p>lol, im going to choate.....lol</p>

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<p>I loved Choate's admissions guy. The interview along with my Groton one was the best ever. He is the chess coach there and I was nationally ranked in Australia at chess so we spent ages talking about it. It was great! I think his name was Tim.</p>

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<p>well, it seems the other tread is working better than this one...lol..good luck</p>